Dr Rogerio da Silva

Lecturer in Creative Computing

School/Department: Computing and Mathematical Sciences, School of

Profile

I am responsible for teaching several courses on CS and Gaming curricula, mostly involving concepts of programming and computer graphics. In terms of research, I'm interested in studying virtual and augmented reality, synthetic characters and affective computing.

Research

2023- 2023 LLSA/Dizzy Ears
- LLSA/Dizzy Ears is a research project originated from the partnership between the Leicester Life Sciences Accelerator (LLSA) division of the university of Leicester, with a vestibular therapy clinic (Dizzy Ears). The project aims at studying ways to employ virtual and augmented reality to improve vestibular therapy to treat vertigo and dizziness symptoms.

Supervision

MSc Projects
- BADAVATH, Archana. "Development of Visualisations from Rail Train Operating Companies tweets", 2022.
- KADALI, Monika. "Development of Visualisations for Leicester City Council utilising twitter data and City Council data", 2022.
- MEDABOINA, Sowmya. "Online Collaborative Recipe Book", 2022.
- SANNASAPALLI, Lohitha. "Java 'Code Test' Application (Code Editor/Compiler)", 2022.
- JINUKUNTA, Sainihanth. "Weather Application (Web Application)", 2022.
Entrepreneurial Projects
- TAMOOR, Rahim. "Using Virtual Environments to deal with Stress & Anxiety'', 2023
- AJETOMOBI, Rachael A. "A plug-in for Blender to animate facial expressions and lip syncing", 2023.
- LUCAS, Jacob, "T-shaped prototype of a game engine based on Vulkan", 2023.

Teaching

CO1110 Digital Arts Lab
CO1112 Games And Gamification
CO2113 Entertainment Technology